Four months after his departure from Rockville, Md.-based GovConnection, Jay Lambke has taken on the position of president for another company: global support and maintenance service provider Prism Pointe Technologies.

The president of the storage giant's software group recently discussed the impact the channel has made on EMC. DeWalt also talked about the Hopkinton, Mass.-based vendor's plan to get partners to participate in 100 percent of the company&'s software business. He spoke with CRN Editor Heather Clancy, Editor/News Steven Burke and Senior Editor Joseph F. Kovar.

Michael Oh, CEO of Tech Superpowers, a 14-year-old Apple solution provider coming off its best year ever, is pumped about the new Intel dual-core Macs.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs officially kicked off the Intel era at Macworld last week, showcasing two iMac all-in-one desktops and two MacBook Pro notebooks, all of which run on the new Intel Core Duo processors.

On the heels of rivals Adaptec and LSI Logic, Broadcom this month is slated to release a new line of RAID controller cards that will support both SAS and SATA disk drives to work in both hardware and host-based implementations.

CA on Monday said it will begin reselling storage virtualization products from StoreAge Networking Technologies, but many CA enterprise partners will have to wait for CA to iron out the certification process.

Get media files faster with higher capacity NAS devices

A new breed of standalone network-attached storage (NAS) devices has arrived. They offer increased storage capacity and the ability to serve up media content, and are as easy to install as they are powerful. By adding one of these NAS devices to your small-business customer's network, you can deliver all the benefits of central data storage, plus offer them a central media server.

Avanade is working with Network Appliance to help enterprise clients migrate to Microsoft messaging applications and with related compliance issues, and NetApp solution providers are being invited along for the ride.

System builders welcome expected boost in manufacturing capacity

Though Seagate&'s late December acquisition of rival Maxtor means one less hard-drive supplier, system builders say there&'s not much to worry about. In fact, they say, the deal just may ensure more quality supply as hard-drive makers try to satisfy the needs of the consumer-electronics market.

Though Seagate's acquisition of rival Maxtor means one less hard-drive supplier, system builders say there&'s not much to worry about. In fact, the deal may just ensure more quality supply as hard-drive makers work to meet rising demand from the consumer electronics market.